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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Most of those "only glib.h can be included directly" errors are fixed by doing just that- edit the source to include glib.h instead of glib/*.h. However, with this particular version, I seem to remember that there were other issues with building on Slackware 14 as well.

Up through Slackware 13.37 I've been the maintainer for the SlackBuild for parcellite. The project is dead now and has been superseded by a fork called clipit, which is already on SBo and works great on Slackware 14.0 RCx. I recommend that you check it out. Here are some of my brief comparison notes between clipit 1.4.2 and parcellite 1.0.2rc2:

History item removal isn't as crucial if you correctly use offline mode. I do still like the stock GTK icons better since they match desktop themes, so I'll probably write a patch to clipit to make that an option (as I did for the parcellite SlackBuild).

I don't intend on maintaining the parcellite SlackBuild anymore, so if someone wants to pick it up for SW 14+ feel free to do so. I think 1.02rc5 will build on SW 14 RCx. But again, the sources are dead and the fork, clipit, has superseded it. Hope this helps.

But again, the sources are dead and the fork, clipit, has superseded it.

Unfortunately development clipit also terminated
Clipit author wrote in his blog "I switched to KDE for the time being (I don't think it's definitive, but I really couldn't get my work done properly with GNOME 3). For this reason, the development of ClipIt has been halted for now. I really hope to be able to get back to it, since I really use it every day, and I can't imagine doing my work without the aid of a clipboard manager, and I also still have a lot of ideas of improving the app. "

Unfortunately development clipit also terminated
Clipit author wrote in his blog "I switched to KDE for the time being (I don't think it's definitive, but I really couldn't get my work done properly with GNOME 3). For this reason, the development of ClipIt has been halted for now. I really hope to be able to get back to it, since I really use it every day, and I can't imagine doing my work without the aid of a clipboard manager, and I also still have a lot of ideas of improving the app. "

He also wrote in the comments "...in any case, I will somehow continue the development of ClipIt, even if itíll just be a Xorg app."

I wouldn't worry about clipit being obsolete any time too soon. However, if at the next Slackware release (after 14.0) it is obsolete (broken), I'll either fix it or find the next project that takes its place. I'm less concerned with new features as much as simply maintaining the current good functionality.